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Support the Department of Communication

Gifts to the Department of Communication provide resources to develop and create programs that are not covered by state funding. Gifts to the Department support a wide-range of needs including: student research activities, annual lectures, curriculum development, faculty retention, and publication of our department newsletter. All gifts are tax deductible and truly make a difference.

Ways to Give

Make a gift online
Online credit card gifts for the Department of Communication can be made through the University of Washington's secure server.

Don Pember Scholarship
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Send a check
Make checks payable to the University of Washington, with a note indicating the fund you wish to support. Mail payments to:

University of Washington
Department of Communication
Box 353740
Seattle, WA 98195-3740

Call toll-free and use a credit card
Call 1-877-UW-GIFTS (877-894-4387)
and specify which fund or program you wish to support.

Contact Carolyn Black,
Director of Development, College of Arts and Sciences, at (206) 685-3863 or cablack@u.washington.edu for customized giving options.

2007-2008 Flip Wilson Scholarship Essay

Amara Russell is the winner of the 2007-08 Flip Wilson Scholarship. Russell is a senior majoring in Journalism, with a minor in Law, Society and Justice. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, but has enjoyed living in Seattle for the past three years while studying at the UW. She is an intern at KIRO Newsradio and is interning for KOMO's talk show Northwest Afternoon both Winter and Spring quarters. She wants to pursue a career in television production so that she can help change the stereotypical portrayals of minorities in the media. She writes that she "is honored to be a recipient of the 2007 Flip Wilson Scholarship and believes that he was a trailblazer in the advancement of people of color in the entertainment industry."

Past Essays:

Don Pember Journalism Scholarship

The Don Pember Journalism Scholarship supports scholarships for journalism students, with preference for community college transfer students or journalism students with a strong interest in media law.

Don joined the University of Washington faculty in 1969 and served as a mentor to many undergraduate and graduate students. He received the UW's prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award in 1973 and was recognized two years later for excellence in teaching by the Carnegie Foundation. His path-breaking work on privacy led to Privacy and the Press (1979) and he has been a significant leader in mass communication through two popular textbooks. There were six editions of Mass Media and America and, as of the summer of 2007, Don is working on the 16th edition of his highly regarded Mass Media Law.

Don has always cared greatly about providing educational opportunity for students from modest economic backgrounds. With the Don Pember Journalism Scholarship, we can both honor Don's wonderful career and provide for deserving students.

To make a gift by mail, send your check, payable to "University of Washington Foundation" to Development Director at University of Washington, Department of Communication, Box 353740, Seattle, WA 98195. You may also use our online giving system (all contributions will be acknowledged and are eligible as a tax deduction)

Featured Alumnus(a)

David Horsey talks about his time as an editor for the Daily and as a UW student.

Watch the video at the UW Foundation website!

The Journalism Foreign Intrigue Scholarship

This program was established by a UW Journalism alum, and provides financial support for a journalism student to work as a intern reporter at a foreign newspaper and to travel after the internship. The donor's goal is to give journalism students an exposure to another culture and a more thorough understanding of journalism and culture.

In 2007 - scholarship recipients are interning at three newspapers: Tiffany Wan at the Jakarta Post (Indonesia), Michael Carter at AWOKO (Freetown, Sierre Leone) and Maureen Trantham at the Shanghai Star (China).

Read more about the interns on their travel blogs:

Tiffany Wan at the Jakarta Post

Maureen Trantham at the Shanghai Star

Michael Carter at Awoko, in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Remembering Deb Kaplan: 1952-2006

On November 29, 2006, members of our community gathered to celebrate the memory of Professor Deborah Kaplan. Collected here are the words of her colleagues and friends, as well as a record of her scholarly work and the Seattle PI article on her passing.